Ida B. Wells Quotes

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.